Sport shoe



Nov, 29, 1932. STEVENSON 1,889,734

SPORT SHOE Filed March 26, 1932 l N VE NTO R /7d77d79l 6. Eff/92507?ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 29, 1932 UNITED T E MARGA ET c. STEVENSON, ornuNKrnx; new Yonx sron'r SHOE Application filed March26, 1932. SerialNo. 601,308.

This invention relates to improvements in footwear and with regard tocertain more specific features thereof to improvements in ticularly foruse .in playing golf.

According to present day practices golf shoes are manufactured eitherlargely of leather with fabric linings or of canvas with treads ofleather ortreads of various comositions of plastics hardened to aresistant fiexible mass, or they may be almost entirely of rubbercomposition or combinations of rubber and canvas. The present inventionmay be carried out in connection with any of the knownmanufacturingmethods used in the production of golf shoes. I

The trend in the playing of golf is definitely away from the use of wetsand or clay to slightly elevate the golf ball for driving purposes andtoward the use of some specially manufactured device which-is carriedaround the course by the player and used as needed to prop the ballslightly away from the ground.

By farrthe most popular of such devices is a peg having a tapered end bywhich it may be forced into the ground and an enlarged head withconcaved upper surface to receive and temporarily hold the'ballin'position for'the drive. These pegs or tees are usuallyine'xw pensively,constructed of'woocl and are'jin discriminately :used as many of themare carried away by the swing of the club in driving and'the playerignores their recovery. The player starts, therefore, with anumber ofthese wooden tees and hereand there loses one and here and thererecoversone left. by

a preceding player. Although this type of. tee is acknowledged as animprovement over the old clay tee it nevertheless presents an 0annoyance in that several of them must be carried around the course andmust be located in the person leaving the players hand free to use thegolf clubs. Women players are frequently without pockets for theaccommodation of these tees and in any event pockets have proven veryunsatisfactory as receptacles for them. Often the tee is retrieved fromthe ground with wet dirt clinging to it.

If this goes into the pocket it contaminates various: other articles.Also the .players sport shoes or appurtenances therefor, parhands becomegrimy in the progress of the game and constantlyrepeateduse of themtotake the. tees out of the pocket. soils the. marginal area ofthe pocketso that crash orlinen knickersor fiannels orlight colored sweaters and jackets V are unfit for further wean; :In addition to this the tees-aresmall and become involvecl with other articlesiin the pocket so thatthey are not readily located. A a A j ur V Arrangement of the tees atcertain parts of the body is dangerous owingto the sharp points of thetees and the liability of injury in swinging the clubsand in thefrequent lsotoltlipingnecessary toadjust or recover the a The presentinventionfhas for one of its objects to provide a simple and inexpensivemeans for holdingthe pointed tees :on the "f I shoe of a player in suchmanner'as to avoid m ury to the player and avoid loss of the tees incarrying them around the course. -Another object ofthe invention is toprovide a shoe with a plurality of exterior pockets or loops soarrangedthat a multiplicity a of pointed tees maybe carried thereinwith-' out discomfort to the wearer of theshoe and without anysubstantial lateral overhang of the tees which wouldjtend tointerfereawith' anornial walking action and tend to catch on extraneousmatter. y i More specificallythe invention has for an object themodification of the vamp portion of a shoe upper'to receiveand holda-golf tee and still more specifically it has'the object ofmodifying'the shoe'upper for the reception and frictional holding of aplurality of tees on one or both'sides of the shoe. 7 a

Thefinvention accordingly consists in the various features .ofconstruction, combinations of elements and arrangements of partsexemplified by the device shown in the .accompanying drawing andhereinafter: d'escribed and the scope of the application of which isindicated in the appended claims, 95 In the drawing wherein isillustrated one of various possible embodiments of the in: vention:,..-x

Figure leis a viewinplanof a pair of sport shoes embodying theinvention.1

. loops 28. Y p 30 preferably attached so as to be over them Fig. 2 is aview in side elevation of one of the shoes depicted in Fig.1, showingthe inher side, and p Fig. 3 is atop plan view of the shoe shown 5 inFig. 2.

The shoe shown in the drawing is constructed mainly of leather andcomprises the sole 10, heel 11 andupper 12; The upper has the usualquarters 13, counter 14 and vamp m 15 with toe-cap 16'. Theshoe upperis. provided with a front closure formed by a lacing opening provided inthe vamp having short flaps 17 secured to or formed on the vamp at theopening adapted to, be brought together 15 or closely adjacent to eachother over a tongue 19--by 'l'aci ng 1'8. Diagonal trim strips 20reinferce; the va-mp and oneof them covers the seambetweenthevamp andthe quarters. As

so fardescribed the shoe is of conventional 6 construction. Along thevamp, ad acent the lacing openin and on what may be termed the;oute'rsi'de of the shoe, a strip of thin fiexiblel'eather is stitched;to the upper by stitching-linesQG at each end ofthe strip and 5 byintermediate spaced parallel lines of SliltClling 27 between each ofwhich the flexible leather strip is slightly bowed to form withthe'uppersurface of the vamp a ser es of This exteriorl'y applied strip is stepof a wearers foot and the loops are formed to receive and grippinglyholdj pointedjpegs or tees 30; theloops being arranged in an obliquedirection relative to the lacing opening or-front closure andalsorelative to the longer dimension of'theshoe so thatthe tees or pegs areretained in a 13081131011 such that the longer dimenslon thereof isoblique relative to the lacing; opening and thelonger' dimension of theshoe,

9n the inner sideof the shoe, and adjacent thelacin g opening, asimilarstripmay'be arranged but' according to a preferred form oftheinvention the peg-holder applied to the inner sideofthe shoe isconstructedof a series of independent loops each formed: by bendmg ashortstrip 31 back on itself, matching its ends, and then securing thematched ends as bystitching to a'conimon strip32which latter is stitchedto the vamp in position to be substantially over-the instep of thewearers foot. The matched ends of the strips 31 are indicated in dottedlines by the numeral 33 on the holder for the foremost peg.Therema-i-nder of the matched ends are not shown forthe sakeofclearn'essin-the illustration.

The introduction of the pegs to the holder on the inner side of the shoecausesthe loops of strips 31 to assume an angular relationwith 0 the"matched ends due to engagement of the are sufficiently close to the vampso that in troduction of the pointed and headed golf tees involves aslight wedging action and a frictional. contact of the tees not onlywith the loops but with the upper surface of the vamp as well.Preferably the loops or pockets areearound or-over the shanks ofthe teeswhen thelattei are-inposition. -The-enlarged heads of the tees preventthem from passing downwardly oroutwardlythrough the loops.

By the above described construction pro- Vision is made for receivingand grippingly holding rows of golf tees on one or both sides of thefoot, in such manner that the tees of either row lie in substantialparallelism with their-pointed. shafts'oblique to the. center line of:the lacing; strip.- andlonger dimension of the shoe. The tees'obviouslyare held at the instep. portion of the foot and therefore do notinterfere orcause any annoyance to the wearer duringwalkin The pressure:exerted by the tees inobtainingthe frictional holda ing effect isinsuiiicient to cause annoyance to the weareryet suitable tothe purposeof retainingthe tees-in position. If desired the wedging action maybeeliminated andthe length anddirection of-the tees depended upon to holdthem in position as the player walks along.

. Although. the invention has been decanizing'ofthe complete shoe,eliminating all stitching operations. Due to. the irregularity oftheshape of the foot atf the region of at! taclimentof the tee-holdingpockets or loops it has been found desirable to arrange the loops ontheinner side o'f theshoe so that the tees will be. directed forwardly anddown wardly'and to arrange the lo ops on the outer side oftheshoe sothat the tees'will be di} rected rearwardly. and downwardly, but theinventionis not limited to this particular arrangement. 1 F T If desiredthe tee holders may. be; con.- structed as removable, units attachableby snap fasteners, hooks or buttons or in other suitable manner. I v

e What isclai-med is:

' 1. A sportshoe having a front closure and a plurality of loops offlexible material mountedon theshoe upper. atone'side'of the front,closureand adapted to receive and grip;- pingly: hold golf tees,.'saidloopsbeing obliquely disposed relative to said closure and the longerdimension of the shoe. 7

2. In a sport shoe provided with a lacing opening in the upper, meansfor holding golf tees comprising flexible loops secured to the upperadjacent the lacing opening and arranged obliquely relative to saidopening and the longer dimension of the shoe.

3. A sport shoe having a lacing opening and a plurality of flexibleloops adapted to hold golf tees secured to the upper on opposite sidesof the lacing opening, said loops being so formed and arranged on theshoe that the golf tees on one side of said opening are arranged in adirection oblique to the longer dimension of the shoe and the tees onthe opposite side of said opening are also arranged in an obliquedirection relative to the longer dimension of the shoe but opposite thatof said first named tees.

4Q A sport shoe comprising an upper having a front closure, and aplurality of flexible golf tee holding loops secured to the upperadjacent the front closure and adapted to grippingly hold golf tees-overthe instep of the wearer, said loops being so arranged as to positionthe tees with the longer dimension thereof oblique relative to the frontclosure and the longer dimension of the shoe.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

MARGARET C. STEVENSON.

